The Mayoral Inauguration

Last night we managed to get ourselves a ticket for the inauguration of the new Mayor, Harry Singh at the Painted Hall in Greewnich. We're not going to lie to you, it was tedious.

What we did find particularly odd was when the outgoing Mayor, Cllr Paul Tyler opened the proceedings. He welcomed our Members of Parliament, clearly no one had told him they were all six miles down the river voting on the Government's Education Bill (two rebels, one toady).

Once the hello's were over we were subjected to a long and very dull speech from Chris Roberts. It should be said there were a few moments where are our eyes popped open in shock at what we heard. The admission that Greenwich was an unhealthy place to bring your children up in especially perked us up.

The piece de resistance for us though was when Roberts started ranting on about the Nazis and World War II. Why would this grab our attention? Well the night was also a 40th anniversary celebration of the twinning of some Borough in Berlin and a delgation was in the audience (invited to speak later on).

We have visions of later conversations along the lines of "don't mention the war, I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it."